Umia, Kutch, Bhuj Formation, Umia Member (Jurassic of India)

Where: Gujarat, India (23.6° N, 69.0° E: paleocoordinates 27.6° S, 33.3° E)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Umia Member (Bhuj Formation), Tithonian (152.1 - 145.0 Ma)

• uppermost part of Umia Member

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: coastal; lithified sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. S. Das. 2002. Two new pleurotomariid (Gastropoda) species, including the largest Bathrotomaria, from the Berriasian (Early Cretaceous)of Kutch, western India. Cretaceous Research 23(1):99-109 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 64623: authorized by Wolfgang Kiessling, entered by Uta Merkel on 11.09.2006

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Ammonitida - Olcostephanidae
Umiaites sp. Spath 1931 ammonite
 Ammonitida - Himalayitidae
 Ammonitida - Perisphinctidae
Virgatosphinctes sp. Uhlig 1910 ammonite
Bivalvia
 Trigoniida - Trigoniidae
Opisthotrigonia retrorsa Kitchin 1903 clam